Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
AGNES MARTINYou must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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I paint with my back to the world
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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